You know, from what Dena said, she wasn't down with the autism thing...so that train wreck can't be blamed on her.

When did she say that?

In her last blog Dena said something to the fact that the show "approached" her about doing an autism storyline since she had some experience with it, and she would never push her own agenda by insisting something like that be done.

In another post, she said that the execs push her to write things that she wouldn't write beyond her comfort zone, and she was proud that she is able to come through with something that she could be proud of.

I always got the impression from her blogs that the autism storyline was not what she wanted to do.